Chapter 140

To say it again — once a project wraps, what comes next?

The next project, waiting in line…….

In the middle of a massive, warehouse-style set, cold air drifting through it, an elaborately prepared ritual table had been set up.

Steamed rice cakes, every kind of fruit, and at the center of the table, a plump pig's head. On top of all that, the smell of incense stung at the nose.

Sae-i knew it was customary to hold a ceremonial rite before a film began shooting.

These days some productions skipped it, but apparently Kim Seong-rok was the type to insist on keeping it.

The mood here was unmistakably different from how it had been on Love Life Record.

The source of the tension pressing down on the set was, without question, Director Kim Seong-rok, megaphone in hand.

In Chungmuro, he was notorious as a perfectionist and a tiger who…